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Thanks for the precious information! I thought about asking here because it's not the first time HN saves my "life" by providing proper perspective on important decisions.

Thank you! I'm absolutely also going to get in touch with HR and also get a proper tax accountant.

Hi, I am likely looking to leave (within the next few weeks) the startup I am currently working for, and go to one of the top 4 for several reasons. (Un)fortunately, the startup ap…

Thank you for your thorough reply, I really appreciate it. I can guarantee you I'm no guru at all, I just have a solid understanding of distributed systems on top of average coding…

Thanks for your opinion!

Thanks for your feedback! The problem is that, while my current startup is "imaginary" money compared to RSUs, the business is going very strong, we have multi million dollar yearl…

Hi I was lucky enough to pass the standard software engineer interview with 3 of the top SV tech companies (think Google, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Amazon). I have about 7 years of…

Speaking of big tech company salaries, here's a very fresh data point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13985376 Sorry for the shameless plug, feel free to downvote if not appr…

Hi I was lucky enough to pass the standard software engineer interview with 3 of the top SV tech companies (think Google, Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Amazon). I have about 7 years of…

But you don't always need to build a network yourself: in my experience, if you're reasonably bright from the technical point of view, you get paired with a sales account manager w…

Hello HN I'm a "typical" software engineer working as a team lead in SF for a small startup. Reading a few threads on salaries, it seems the average compensation in the area for so…

Hello HN and happy Sunday, I joined a startup two years ago as the very first non-founding engineer (right after the seed round of about 1.5M). I took a salary cut for a bit less t…

This was highly inspirational and I loved it, especially "My customers and I enter into a business transaction as peers. This mutual respect is very important to me". If I might as…

In my 8 year professional career as a software developer I worked in a big corp, a late stage startup and a very early stage startup. In all the teams I worked with I always found …

Thank you for your suggestion. As I said in the previous comment, it doesn't really matter, since I want to solve the problem primarily for me by minimizing the costs, so my curren…

Thank you very much for your answer! To address your points: - I'm not doing a preliminary marketing research because, in the worst case, me being the only user of the service woul…

Hi I was revisiting my personal list of "passive income" ideas, and I found a problem that I could solve by creating a very small SaaS product. In my full time job I'm a core backe…

Hello, A bit less than 2 years ago I joined a software startup in SV as one of the very first employees, right after their seed round. At that time, I got ISOs for ~2% of the equit…

Howdy I joined a startup ~2 years ago as employee #2 (software engineer), and thus I've had the responsibility of essentially building every technical aspect of the company from th…

What company do you work for if I might ask?